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Spam on the site.

Is there really nothing that can be done about all the "my cousin makes xxx dollars part time..." spam comments that we're getting recently?

The last 2 articles I read (Desktop dungeons and another one) had a large number of such comments.
I assume RPS has some kind of anti-spam filter, which is probably catching a lot of spam.. but these ones seem to get through on a regular basis.

Can we get a "report spam" button? Or are we supposed to use the "block" button for that?
Does multiple people "blocking" a post flag it up somehow?
I feel like if we at least had a "report spam" button we could be training the anti-spam software or something.

In the last few days the spam has really started to spiral out of control. Sinister agent suggests that RPS just blocks all comments with $ in them, just so we can have a bit of reprieve. Doesn't sound like the worst idea.

The spamming issue is clearly for users like you that only want to get on here with ten posts so they can promote something. Youre not very welcome so far, please reduce the clutter of posts just because you need ten to post in the other forums.

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